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Hi everyone – Happy Veteran’s Day! An extra big thank you to all combat veterans – my thoughts and prayers are with all of you especially today.

I saw some really good cartoons for today, but I wanted to start with this –

Yup – that’s what Google looks like today! I will admit that it makes me a little nostalgic because the Air Force girl standing in for the letter “L” actually looks a lot like how I looked in uniform.

Yup you read that right – yours truly spent three whole years in the Air Force, which technically makes me a veteran. But to be honest I don’t think I deserve the title. I sat in a bunker with headphones and didn’t see a day of combat; my life was never actually in danger. When I think of someone who has earned the title “veteran” I think of these gentlemen –

They are the ones who have truly earned today’s traditional social nicety –

Speaking of which, I read an interesting opinion on that phrase, “Thank you for your service.” I was never sure what to say in response, especially since there are SO many people who deserve thanks for their service and their sacrifice before I do. But I finally found the right response – “The honor was mine.” Because that’s how I feel – every day it was a privilege to don the uniform and symbolically become a part of our indomitable national defense machine.

In no particular order –

Just a couple images I thought were cool. As someone who appreciates the military traditions of saluting the flag and other gestures of respect toward our national symbols, I like the image of Uncle Sam (and symbolically the whole country) turning the tables and saluting the veterans.

I picked this one just because it’s clearly a non-white soldier. I didn’t see too many cartoons recognizing the racial diversity of our armed forces, so I had to grab this one.

A cynical juxtoposition of how we celebrate Veteran’s Day vs. what a significant number of veterans have to actually put up with.

And to finish it off – ever since I was introduced to the poem in middle school, I can’t read the poem In Flanders Fields without tearing up.

And on that note, I wish I could think of a graceful way to close, but instead I’ll just say to all the veterans out there – Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your service!

I nabbed these cartoons forever ago, when St. JPII died, and I ran them on my blogspot blog a few years later. I still think they’re great, and today seemed like a great day to re-run them:

This picture and this quote seemed to capture him nicely. And it’s a great reminder that death is not the end.

This is a particularly famous quote of his. I love it because FAR too many people seem as if they need to be reminded that the sky is NOT falling at any given time. And I love the silhouette + quote layout – simple and sweet.

“We are the light of the world, may our light shine before all, that they may see the good that we do and give glory to God.” ~Jean Greif, “We are the Light of the World” I am generally not one for Biblical references, mainly because they tend to get overused, tired out, and/or used to bludgeon the heathen unbelievers (or Catholics, those idol-worshipping demonspawn), but this Matthew 5:14 reference is very poetic here – when St. JPII died his earthly light went out. But see also the first picture above – death is not the end.

And another Biblical reference – this time Matthew 25:21. Usually when I see this verse applied to someone contemporary it comes across as insufferably arrogant, but somehow it feels okay to do this for a canonized pope. This is definitely my favorite use of this particular verse that I have seen.

And I saved my favorite for last – St. JPII was famous for kissing the ground everywhere he went, and I love the imagery of him stopping to kiss the ground even before entering the gates of Heaven.